Subject: U.S. History

• Fake CNN Site Blames Fires on Mexicans

  When a bogus post went up on a fake CNN website late last week with the headline: "Separatists Claim Responsibility for California Wildfires" and which included a "confirmation" by Gov. Schwarzenegger that MECha (the Aztlan-loving student group) had claimed responsibility for the fires, anti-immigrant websites spread the story, well, like wildfire. Bloggers eagerly jumped at the fake bait and swallowed the hoax whole, calling for armageddon, a new Mexican-American war and anything else violen

  October 29, 2007

• Comedic Awakenings

  February 26, 2009

• Why Won't the Times Print Obscene Jokes About Blacks?

  The Los Angeles Times ran an obituary today on Earl Butz, the Secretary of Agriculture under Yorba Linda boy Richard Nixon. Per the obit, "He was forced to resign his Cabinet post in October 1976 after telling an obscene joke that was derogatory to blacks." The Times, in its ever-genteel ways, didn't even bother to hint at Butz's crack, but we at the Weekly give it to you in its entirety after the jump!

  February 3, 2008

• Mexican Kids Hating Mexican Kids, And Why It's Okay

  La Opinión had a fascinating front-page piece yesterday about kiddies at Creek View Elementary School in Ontario regaling each other with a rhyme that translates as, "I don't want to go to Mexico ever again, again, again/Mexico stinks, stinks, stinks/There's a fat policeman at the door, door, door." Parents and school officials are flipping out, and La Opinión even interviews some psychologist who warns that "the danger" of such a chant toward a student's self-esteem "can be profound." Even cr

  April 22, 2008

• God Bless America, Tom & Jerry Style

  While other websites post the Declaration of Independence for their 4th of July entry, we at the Weekly encourage a more palatable visual to the greatest country on earth: Tom and Jerry's Academy Award-winning Yankee Doodle Mouse. Make sure to blow up your illegal Mexican fireworks in parking lots, amigo!

  July 4, 2008

• The Curious Case of the Bowers Museum KKK Tree

  Outside the Bowers Museum (the original part, not the multimillion-dollar addition) stands a beautiful, still growing crape myrtle tree. It blooms every spring, adding a bit of genteel, colorful charm to the already-purty facility. You've seen this tree if you ever drive or walk past the Bowers on Main Street in SanTana. What you probably haven't seen, however, is the plaque right below it. It commemorates the tree's planting in 1969 to commemorate SanTana's centennial. The sponsors? The Emma S

  September 3, 2008

• Patriot Day vs. Patriots' Day Smackdown

  Since 2002, September 11 has been celebrated as Patriot Day to honor the memory of the nearly 3,000 who died in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. Patriot Day is a catchier title than what the day was originally called, the National Day of Prayer and Remembrance for the Victims of the Terrorist Attacks on September 11, 2001. But Patriot Day still musters up confusion considering America already celebrates Patriots’ Day, which is sometimes spelled Patriot’s Day or Patriots Day. That Patriots’ D

  September 11, 2008

• Death of a Salesman

  June 10, 2004

• Meet The New Dick, Same As The Old Dick

  Because today would have been Richard Milhous Nixon's 94th birthday, I've decided to roll out something I was not prepared to roll out: TheNewDick.org. It's my new website/blog that strives to present all the ways the 37th president of the United States, despite being very dead, still manages to inspire, enliven and invade popular culture. TheNewDick.org is inspired, enlivened and invaded by TheNewNixon.org blog, brought to you by the Richard Nixon Foundation

  January 9, 2009

• Historians: Lots of Presidents Worse Than OC's Favorite Disgraced Son

  It was mused here previously that, based on their respective (low) popularity ratings, George W. Bush was more despised upon leaving the presidency than Orange County's favorite disgraced son Richard Nixon, which prompted our tip of the press hat to the Richard Nixon Library & Birthplace Foundation in Yorba Linda for their masterful, decades-in-the-making-Nixon makeover. Well, it seems those low ratings must have also influenced the nation's historians, w

  February 17, 2009

• We Can Do It!

  January 29, 2009

• [¡Ask a Mexican!] Special Guadalupe Edition

  December 11, 2008

• [¡Ask a Mexican!] Jaime Hendrix?

  November 20, 2008

• Cal State Long Beach's Graduate Theater Program Tackles the Seldom-Produced 'Kentucky Cycle'

  October 23, 2008

• [¡Ask a Mexican!®] Jumping to Conclusions

  October 16, 2008

• En Garden

  July 31, 2008

• Riveting Entertainment

  May 8, 2008

• The KKK Took My County Away: Meet the Klansman Who Helped to Found Orange County

  April 17, 2008

• Abesolutely Fabulous

  January 10, 2008

• Everything Gold Can Stay

  August 23, 2007

• This weeks featured NFL game: St. Louis Rams (4-0) at Atlanta Falcons (1-4)

  October 21, 1999

• !Ask a Mexican!

  November 16, 2006

• Subversive Scholarship

  Dr. Howard Zinn

  November 2, 2006

• True Lies

  The rise of the bunkumentary

  November 2, 2006

• !Ask a Mexican!

  June 8, 2006

• Grant vs. Bush

  October 13, 2005

• Dear Reader

  June 2, 2005

• Big, Brown, Luscious Gams

  January 13, 2005

• Diary of a Mad County

  August 5, 2004

• In Cold Blood

  July 22, 2004

• Diary of a Mad County

  July 15, 2004

• The Lone Star

  April 29, 2004

• Art of War

  January 15, 2004

• Empire Eats

  May 1, 2003

• From Canvas to Screen

  April 3, 2003

• Goin South

  March 13, 2003

• Casting lott

  December 26, 2002

• Honored Heroes, Forgotten Dead

  February 21, 2002

• America the Booty Full

  July 26, 2001

• Smoke, Bullets, Mayhem

  July 19, 2001

• Howard Korders Truly Terrifying Tales of America

  January 13, 2000

• QUIET ON THE SET PIECE

  January 6, 2000

• $15 2-Course Lunch at Anaheim White House For Administrative Professionals' Week

  The Anaheim White House is offering a special for Administrative Assistants' (or Professionals') Week (April 20-24). For $15, you can treat your Administrative Assistant (or Professional) for a two-course lunch (an entree and dessert), and you don't have to report it on your 10-K. Heck for $15, if you are well-to-do enough to have an Administrative Assistant (or Professional) working for you, you can probably afford to just pay it out your own pocket! Though I wouldn't let on that the meal

  April 21, 2009

• As Rep. Calvert Beams Over Gipper Statue, Many Fume

  Courtesy U.S. Capitol"Ladies and gentlemen, the statue of Ronald Reagan," the announcer inside the Capitol Rotunda said last Wednesday before House Speaker Nancy Pelosi helped 87-year-old Nancy Reagan to her feet so she could tug back the blue drape cloaking Chas Fagan's 7-foot bronze statue of the Gipper.The audience rose to politely applaud. Among them were a bipartisan collection of the type of folks you'd normally see shouting each other down on the Sunday chat shows. From the right came for

  June 9, 2009

• WTF Alert!?! John Dean Coming to Nixon Library!

  John Dean, shown last year, is coming to the Nixon Library.Over the years, the Richard Nixon Library, Birthplace, Museum, Taqueria & Polo Grounds in Yorba Linda has hosted such speakers as Ann Coulter, Hugh Hewitt, Bill O'Reilly, William J. Bennett, Dick Cheney and probably even more repulsive folks--if that's even possible--that I'm forgetting.After the partisan Richard Nixon Library & Birthplace Foundation that had been running the place turned over the keys to the National Archives--w

  June 10, 2009

• George McGovern Spreads Peace at the Warring Nixon Library

  George McGovern, peacemaker​It took former U.S. Senator George McGovern (D-South Dakota) to bring peace to the library and museum dedicated to the memory of his opponent in the 1972 presidential election, Richard Nixon.  Ten weeks after the private Richard Nixon Library & Birthplace Foundation announced it was ending co-sponsorships with the federally funded Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum over the museum-sponsored, June 17 appearance by John Dean, the foundation and mus

  August 25, 2009

• Coin, Stamp and Collectibles Expo

  September 10, 2009

• More Proof Santa Ana is Racist at its Core: Jefferson Davis Pie!

  Davis: Culinary godfather of SanTana?​My one vice in life is buying books related to Orange County, and our fair land's numerous social organizations have gathered and published their recipes over the years. The oldest cookbook in my collection is one compiled by the Ebell Society of the Santa Ana Valley located in SanTana. It dates from the 1920s and has hilarious recipes for tamale pies, jellied this, and other culinary relics.But the most telling recipe included is for Jeff Davis pie--as in

  September 10, 2009

• The Laramie Project

  September 24, 2009

• Chinese-American Protesters Seeing Red at Nixon Library

  The Richard Nixon Library & Birthplace (now Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum) opened in 1990 and for nearly that long there has been a permanent Hall of World Leaders exhibit featuring life-size statues of such history-shapers as Winston Churchill, Charles deGaulle and Mao Tse-Tung. It's the inclusion of that last fellow--China's deceased "Chairman Mao" of the Long March, Little Red Book and Beatles "Revolution" fame--that has finally sparked a protest against the Yo

  September 30, 2009